The Jewish Museum of Maryland is one of the country’s leading centers for exhibits on Jewish history and culture.

The Museum has 3 exhibition galleries – two in the Main Museum building, and a new one in the lower level of the Lloyd Street Synagogue, that host changing exhibits of local and national interest. We combine art, rare objects, historical photographs, oral histories, videos and hands-on activities in engaging, informative exhibitions. Each exhibit created or hosted by the Museum reveals new perspectives on the Jewish experience in Maryland and beyond.

Click here to download a complete list of past exhibitions from 2005-2010
Click here to download a complete list of past exhibitions from 1987-2004
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Download a pdf list of past Offsite and Traveling Exhibits

  • Red Jacket, Acrylic on canvas - by Nancy Patz
    Sunday, April 18, 2010 - Saturday, July 31, 2010
    Nancy Patz: Her Inward Eye

    An original exhibition featuring the work of Baltimore author and illustrator Nancy Patz. The exhibition, Nancy Patz: Her Inward Eye, includes three series of Patz's drawings, paintings, prints and collages that bring to life the artist's personal memories and the imagined lives of people she has never known.  This exhibit closes August 1, 2010.

    Exhibition Reception
    Sunday, April 18, 2010
    Noon- 4pm.
    Free Admission
    Join us for a special reception honoring Baltimore author and artist Nancy Patz.

  • Drawing on Tradition: The Book of Esther
    Thursday, March 5, 2009 - Sunday, January 31, 2010
    Drawing on Tradition: The Book of Esther

    Drawing on Tradition: The Book of Esther depicts the Book of Esther as you've never seen it before. Featuring the bold and edgy illustrations from JT Waldman's Megillat Esther, this epic tale of exile and redemption is sure to amaze and intrigue.

    The book, Megillat Esther, is available to purchase in our Museum gift shop. Members receive 10% off. For more information, please contact Esther Weiner at 410.732.6400 x211 or eweiner@jewishmuseummd.org.

  • Gillian Laub (American; b. 1975, lives in New York), Tal and Moran, May 2002, fr
    Sunday, September 7, 2008 - Sunday, January 4, 2009
    Dateline: Israel: New Photography and Video Art

    During the 60 years since the founding of the State of Israel, many people outside the country, informed mainly by media accounts, have come to see it primarily as a place of conflict.  What does this mean for art about Israel? 

    Dateline Israel: New Photography and Video Art, on loan from The Jewish Museum, New York, and on view at the Jewish Museum of Maryland from September 7, 2008 through January 4, 2009, features work by noted artists from Israel, Europe, and America.

  • Courtesy of the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust,
    Sunday, February 24, 2008 - Sunday, July 27, 2008
    Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War

    Ours to Fight For: American Jews in the Second World War was created and is circulated by the Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust.

    Celebrate the achievements of the Jewish men and women who served America during World War II, both on and off the battlefield. Learn what the war meant to the Jews of the "Greatest Generation," a story told in their own words, through their own objects, letters, and photographs.

  • Image: Judy Chicago, Detail from Matzoh Cover: Women of Valor/The Female Face of
    Sunday, September 9, 2007 - Monday, January 7, 2008
    Judy Chicago: Jewish Identity

  • Lives Lost, Lives Found: Baltimore's German Jewish Refugees, 1933- 1945
    Monday, March 14, 2005 - Monday, January 2, 2006
    Lives Lost, Lives Found: Baltimore's German Jewish Refugees, 1933- 1945

    Between 1933 and 1945, 3,000 Jews in flight from Nazi persecution arrived in Baltimore.  Here, they built new lives and forged new identities.  Lives Lost: Lives Found documents their stories.